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- From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: BSD Unix aka Freedom is a myth....
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.024921.14228@NCoast.ORG>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 02:49:21 GMT
- References: <1992Jul21.112705.6276@cs.cornell.edu> <veit.711728954@du9ds3> <150ckcINNc7p@iraul1.ira.uka.de>
- Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.org (Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH)
- Followup-To: comp.os.linux
- Organization: North Coast Public Access *NIX, Cleveland, OH
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- As quoted from <150ckcINNc7p@iraul1.ira.uka.de> by S_TITZ@iravcl.ira.uka.de (Olaf Titz):
- +---------------
- | In <veit.711728954@du9ds3> veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de writes:
- | > process management (e.g. init, fork, setuid!)
- | ~~~~~~
- |
- | Some time ago, in a UNIX manual (which one I unfortunately don't
- | remember), I read that the SETUID principle was actually covered by a
- | patent (inventor Ken Thompson, I think).
- +---------------
-
- And AT&T publicly stated that this dated from a time when there was pressure
- on Bell Labs employees to patent things, and that they were not pursuing
- violations of the patent.
-
- Of course, with the current litigation-happy folks over there, they may well
- have decided to change their minds on that. The bastards.
-
- ++Brandon
- --
- Brandon S. Allbery, KF8NH [44.70.4.88]: allbery@NCoast.ORG, bsa@telotech.com
- Senior Programmer, Telotech, Inc. (if I may call myself that...)
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